On December 20th, the "China Computing Valley, Smart Qingyang" National Integrated Computing Network National Hub Node (Gansu) Qingyang Data Center Cluster Green Inclusive Computing Action Promotion Conference was held, and 5 outstanding entrepreneurs, experts and scholars from the national computing industry, artificial intelligence enterprises, digital economy enterprises and other fields gathered together to share the development achievements and experience of the green computing industry, and discuss the development trend and path of the digital economy.
Yang Yi: Deeply cultivate the computing power base to serve the development of the digital economy
"Computing power is positively correlated with economic development, and the lack of intelligent computing power will restrict the innovation ability of the mainland AI field. Algorithms, big data, and computing power are the core of the development of the AI industry, and the efficient processing of data determines the quality of AI, big data, and the metaverse. Qingyang, as an important hub node of 'Eastern Data and Western Computing', will have the potential to create new miracles. Yang Yi, a professor at Lanzhou University and executive director of the Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Computing Technology, said in his speech "Artificial Intelligence and Computing Technology Practice".
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Yang Yi said that 17 of the top 20 countries in terms of computing power are among the top 20 economies in the world. Therefore, computing power has become the engine of the development of the digital economy, and those who have computing power have the future. The digital economy is all about separating data from all factors and using computing power to make it a major factor in economic growth.
At present, Yang Yi and his team have successfully built a comprehensive service platform of "a mobile phone tour in Gansu", completed the construction of Gansu smart tourism big data center, comprehensively upgraded the statistical method of cultural tourism data to a big data analysis method based on machine learning Xi, realized real-time monitoring (video) and three-dimensional management of key scenic spots and key parts, and improved the four-level linkage emergency command capability of the state, provinces, cities and counties.
Yang Yi introduced that relying on Lanzhou University, the Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Computing Technology is committed to three research directions, namely the key technology of cross-regional computing power optimization scheduling, the field-oriented intelligent computing theory and algorithm, and the data security and privacy protection based on the computing power network.
"In the future, we will rely on the Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Computing Technology, take advantage of the scientific research advantages of Lanzhou University, and establish a relevant industry research institute with the Qingyang Municipal Government, and take the opportunity of building a national hub node of the national integrated computing network to form a development pattern of 'one core, two supports, and three dimensions' to solve the scientific and technological problems of the local computing industry. Yang Yi said.
Li Shaozi: Artificial intelligence has great potential to empower the industry
Li Shaozi, deputy director of the Collaborative Computing Committee of the China Computer Federation and professor of the Department of Artificial Intelligence of Xiamen University, gave a speech on the theme of "Computing Power Empowers AI, AI Empowers the Future". From Alpha Go to Chat GPT, Li Shaozi detailed the huge demand for computing power in AI.
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Li Shaozi said that the country attaches great importance to the development of AI, and has successively issued the "Internet + Action Plan", "Internet + Action Plan" and "New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan". Among them, artificial intelligence was written into the government work report twice in 2017 and 2018.
Li Shaozi introduced that nowadays, "intelligence" is almost everywhere, from aerospace exploration, military fields, industrial applications, to daily life. From smartphones and smart glasses to the humanoid robot Sophia, AI has been closely integrated with the development of human life.
According to the real-time monitoring data of the global ICT monitoring platform of the Data Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Information and Communications Technology, as of 2023, the total scale of China's computing power will reach 197EFLOPS, ranking second in the world. The total scale of data center racks in China exceeds 7.6 million, and the total scale of computing power continues to expand. The future development of artificial intelligence will be more dependent on the support of computing power, and "Eastern Data and Western Computing" has a great future.
Wang Shaolan: The large model has entered the "usable stage"
2020 is the first year of large models, and generative AI has entered the "first phase". Since 2020, Zhipu AI's business has fully shifted to the construction of large models, doing algorithm research, and participating in the development of the first batch of large models in China, using its own algorithms to make GLM large models.
Wang Shaolan
At present, the third-generation base model ChatGLM3 independently developed by Zhipu AI has achieved the iterative upgrade of several new functions, that is, the multi-modality of the large model. For example, code can be generated and executed according to user needs, and complex tasks such as data analysis and file processing can be automatically completed, relevant information can be automatically found on the Internet according to the problem and relevant literature or article links can be provided when answering, and semantic and logical capabilities are also greatly enhanced. At the same time, ChatGLM3 integrates the self-developed AgentTuning technology to activate the model agent ability, teach the large model how to work, and improve 1000% compared with the second generation of ChatGLM in terms of intelligent planning and execution, opening up the application of complex scenarios such as tool calling, code execution, games, database operations, knowledge graph search and reasoning, and operating systems of domestic large models.
Wang Shaolan, President of Zhipu AI, said that the goal of Zhipu Model as a Service is to make hundreds of billions of high-precision large models available to more people. At present, the large model has been applied in digital human live broadcast, digital human interview, digital Chinese medicine and other aspects. In the future, we hope to cooperate with other companies and with the support of the Qingyang government, we can work together to develop the digital industry and create a new ecology for large models.
Shi Nan: Jointly open the Qingyang DingTalk digital talent base to help the development of thousands of industries
The digital age has arrived, and everyone is making good use of tools and creating tools. At present, every 10 people on the DingTalk platform have 1 financial person, 1 personnel person and 1 administrative person. At the "China Computing Valley, Smart Qingyang" National Integrated Computing Network National Hub Node (Gansu) Qingyang Data Center Cluster Green and Inclusive Computing Action Promotion Conference, Shi Nan, Chairman and Founder of Xinbeewei Network Technology Co., Ltd., gave a special speech entitled "Digital and Real Integration, All Things Grow, Qingyang DingTalk Digital Base".
Shi Nan
Shi Nan shared his entrepreneurial experience from trade to software research and development, and introduced that DingTalk is China's first software with independent intellectual property rights, and Xinbeewei, as the world's first co-founding company of DingTalk and a joint venture company of Alibaba, takes the urban digital operation center as the entry point to comprehensively and multi-field, and high-level cooperation pattern to vigorously promote the process of urban digitalization.
Shi Nan said that Qingyang, as an important digital hub node city in the country, we are willing to work with the Qingyang government to develop the digital economy, take Qingyang's green and inclusive computing power as the infrastructure, and combine DingTalk and other application platforms to cultivate 100,000 digital talents for Qingyang, create millions of application scenarios, create 100 billion yuan of industrial value, and jointly open Qingyang DingTalk digital talent base to help the development of thousands of industries.
Niu Jibin: The intelligent computing cloud service industry promotes the inclusion of computing power
Niu Jibin, Vice President of Capital Online, delivered a speech on the theme of "A New Generation of Intelligent Online Computing Platform to Boost the Development of AGI Industry". Niu Jibin said that they are committed to building a new AI industry chain, and will promote the inclusion of computing power in the upstream and downstream of the intelligent computing cloud service industry chain in the future.
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In the next five years, the continuous growth of the parameter scale of large language models will reach the effect of AGI (artificial general intelligence), and the substantial increase in users and applications will feed back the industrial chain. Niu Jibin introduced that at present, they have built 4 new AI cloud scenarios, and in the future, they will systematically reconstruct in five aspects, including new computing power, new interconnection, new storage, new platform, and new services, so as to promote intelligent computing services from the heterogeneous period to the super pooling + inference service period.
Niu Jibin introduced the new generation of CDS online intelligent computing platform in detail. He said that the company has now deployed online intelligent computing power in the world, and hopes that in the future, with the help of the construction of "Eastern Data and Western Computing", Qingyang's large computing power will be transformed into large model services, and more interconnected services will be brought to the whole country based on Qingyang.
(Author: Lu Shiling, Liu Yimeng, Liu Yingjuan)